St. Paul daily globe., 1887-05-29
a City by Itself That Has Grown From
Almost Nothing Within Two
sF.- Short Years.
Hundreds Of Solid Business Blocks
That Have Been Built Up as if
H4t.. al 3.
a-stn by Magic Hands.
Parks Are Being Laid Out and Churches
.. and Schools Keep Pace With
t13s 9a Business.
a Hive Of Industry at South st. Paul,
.a Where the Stock Yards Are
, Being Built.

fOliol. sIdul, OuuSlue OI numerous real
estateiagents are aware of the steady
growth Ola settlement just across Rob-
ert Street bridge, known as West st.
Paul, which in five years has increased
its population from 1000 to 10000 souls.
AT present the bridges crossing the river
at Robert and WabaSha streets are the
principal thoroughfares between ST.
Paul and its young namesake, but more
OF these structures are promised within
the next two years. First will come tile
substantial iron structure extending
from Smith street, on the east bank Of
the Mississippi, to Mohawk avenue. on
the west, baiAk, which it is estimated
Will cost upwards of S500,000. 1t will
be 1870 feet high at West st. Paul and
l60 feet on this side of the river, with a
| roadway 81 feet wide, made to accommo-
| date cable or other styles of cars.
Work has already been inaugurated
under contracts with responsible build
| ers, and ut is hoped to have the bridge
completed within a year at the outside.
| Another bridge that will be- voted upon
| this fall and probably agreed to unani-
mously, it is proposed to extend from
| Broadway to point in West st. Paul
near the bend in the river, and this
structure, similar in style and finish to
| that at Mohawk avenue, it is estimated
|. will cost 100000.
| These will afford ample accOmmoda-
| tons to the people of all sections, and
! in West st. Paul the tracks are already
| lald and ready to connect with those to
be placed on the bridges. Approaching
| West st. Paul from the Robert street
| bridge the traveller is at once impressed
| with the desirability of the bluffs be-
| hind the business portion of the city for
HANDSOME RESIDENCES,
| and numerous far-sighted people have
| taken advantage of the opportunity to
| crown these hills with commcdious abid-
ing places. This has been rendered nee
eSSary by the encroachment of the buSi-
ness portion of West st. Paul upon
the flats as they are termed, and
on every hand can be seen evidences
of thrift and enterprise in the way of
new, substantial blocks of brick busi-
ness houses. Some of these blocks al
ready under way or completed are as
| follows: Pinkham, at Fairfield and
Ea. on avenues, cost $4,000; Imeson
Hubert and Fairfield, $4,000; ST.
Peters, South Robert street, $4,000:
Lachance, South Robert, $4,000; Reb-
hOlZ, Dakota avenue, 1900; Shandley,
| South Robert, $4,000: Joe Minnea, Da-
MUD avenue, S@O,UOU. lnOmpSOll, corner
| Dakota avenue and Isabel street, $780,
OOO; J. c. Highhous, Dakota avenue,
$4,000; American Manufacturing COM
pany's foundry, South Robert street,
! $4,000; La Rau, State and Kentucky,
| streets, $1,000; A. Rassler, Concord av-
enue, $4,000; A. Shott, Ohio street,
$1,000; Langevin, Dakota avenue and
Fillmore street, $4,000; Lauer Brothers,
Concord, near Clinton, 5000; Gadbaut,
Concord avenue, $4,000: Paul Martin,
South Robert, $4,000; Berlandi, corner
State and Concord, $4,000; August
Adam, Andrew and Concord, $1,000;
South Robert, $4,000; Hilfrich, near
Concord Street station, $4,000, and the
Heisinger hotel, on Chicago avenue, be-
tween Starkey and Dakota, $4,000.
Besides the business houses me in
toned there are about forty residences,
ranging in price from $1,000 to SCI, 600
apiece now under way, among the most
noticeable being those of Messrs. Paul
Martin, Prescott street, brick building
$4,000: Samuel Dearing, on George
street, three stories high, brick, to cost
$4,000; Isaac st. Pierre, East Winifred
street, $4,000; Mrs. Sarah Ward Concord
street, $4,000; E. G. IversOn, East VIM
fired street, frame dwelling, $1,000.
The LawtOn block on Dakota avenue,
is probably the finest business block i'm
West st. Paul and was completed last
fall at the cost of $500
1t also shelters the West Side bank,
which has been in operation eight
months, having started on $4,000 capi-
tai. This has since been increased to
100000, and the books show earnings of
10 per cent. for the stockholders, which
is a fair indication of the condition of
this part of the city.
THE CHURBH GROWTH.
Churches, too, have received due con-
SideratiOn and the Clinton Avenue
Methodist congregation is considering
plans for a new edifice to cost upwards
of $4,000 and be completed next year
on site at the corner of Clinton avenue
and Isabel street.
A new house of worship for the Eng
liSh LutheranS has just been completed
at the corner of Ada and Robie streets,
the cost of which was $4,000.
To-day the Baptists will hold service
in a new church, opposite the Lutheran,
which is of brick veneered, with brown
stone trimmings and cost $4,000. Ger
man Catholics subscribed $4,000 for
their new brick church on Hall avenue,
near Winifred street, and last but not
least, new twelve-rOOm public school
building will be constructed Oh Living
ston avenue. costing $4,000. This will
supersede the Humboldt school, and
overlooking the city on Midway avenue
is the new, Hendricks school. named
for, the ,Ilate vice president, and which
cost $4,000. <.
Besides these buildings number of
corporations have invested heavily in
property at West st. Paul, the latest
additions being the st. Paul Barrel COM
~ h.,
purchased site near Concord street
station, upon (Which they propose to
erect a ware house costing $4,000. The
Glass Works company have laid the
foundation for a new factory near Pick
erel lake, where they will employ from
$50 to 200 hands. These are but few
of the improvements made within the
space of year, and from a reliable
source the GLOBES representative
learned thd~ st. Paul capitalists had
upwards of S5OO,OOO invested in new
buildings for the ensuing year.
There are two parks in West st. Paul,
one known as Alice in Dawson's addi-
ton, being improved, while Prospect
terrace, along the edge of the first line
of bluffs overlooking the river and st.
Paul, is maintained in it's primitive
WildneSS and attractiveness. Several
propositions for new parks are now
under consideration, and due attention
will be given to providing these lungs
of city for the people of West st. Paul
by their representative, w. M. Camp
bell.
Application has been made and a fa-
vorable report rendered to the postof1ice
department for branch postoffice, as a
drawback in West st. Paul is the nom
delivery of an early morning mail
Under the present arrangement there is
no service before 9 O'Clock, and the Z
o'clock delivery has to be omitted ON ac-l
This evil may be remedied when the
new postal appropriation becomes avail